Sylvania



(No Model.)

L. W. & H. W. FOX.

- SLAW 0R KRAUT GUTTER. No. 429,612. y PatentedJune 10, 1890. l

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LYMAN W'. FOX AND HARRISON W. FOX, OF `MOUNT PLEASANT, PENN- SYLVANIA.

`sLAw 0R KRAUT CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,612', dated June 1o, Iseo.

Application filed March 15, 1890.

.To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, LYMAN IV. FOX, and HARRISON W. FOX, citizens of the United States, residing'at Mount Pleasant, in the `county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slaw or Kraut Cutters; and we do declare the following; to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make land use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

The special object of our invention is to make a convenient device by which slaw or kraut may be rapidly cut and of any desired iineness. l

Figure l of the drawings is a plan View;

' Fig. 2, a vertical section on dotted lines oc @c of Fig. l; Fig. 3, a detail perspective view of the ring which regulates the adjustment ot the cutters. Fig. 4L is a detail view of the bevel-headed and angle-notched collar.

In the drawings, A represents a disk, in the openings aA of which are pivoted the knives B, four in number, and arranged quad rantally. The disk A has central journals which turn on bearings O C upon the parallel bars D D, supported on four legs E E E E, and one of its journals has upon its squared end-a hand crank F, by which the disk, with its knives, is rotated.

Gr is a hopper, in which the cabbage is held A on a floor inclined toward the disk, so that it will present a' portion of its bulk before and in the path of the knives B. The latter are Serial No. 343,957. (No model.)

adjusted to project their edges more or less from the disk and thus cut more 'or less at a stroke. In order to make this adjustment of the knives, we attach a stud ou the beveled side and cause this stud h to play in a diagonal groove 7L of the movable ring H, so as to turn the edge b more or less beyond the face of the disk. This ring is then secured to the collar I, which is fastened on the side of the disk A by a set-screw J. On the inside of ring Il is a stud h', which Works in the anglegroove t' in the outside of collar I, so as to limit the movement of the ring.

K is the shield, which causes the sliced vegetable to fall perpendicularly into a suitable receptacle.

The cabbage or otheilveget-able which is to be sliced is fed automatically by gravity to the knives, but the hand may be used, if deemed advisable.

I/Vhat we claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is"

The combination, with the knife-disk, of the collar I made fast thereto and provided with the angle-groove t', the ring H, having diagonal grooves hin the outside and stud 71, on the inside, thew pivoted knives B, having a stud h on the beveled side, and the set-screw J, the studs on the knives engaging the grooves of the ring II, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

LYMAN W. FOX. HARRISON W. FOX. Witnesses:

A. W. FOX, J. S. BROOKS. 

